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J. A. GRANDALL Velo'ciped.

106. No' 31.110g

Patented Jan. 'l, l*

NIPEYERS, PHOTO-LITKOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON D lC4 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. Y

JESSE A. CRANDALL, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

PERAMBULATOR 0R CHILDS CARRIAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent No.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEssE A. CRANDALL, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful machine which I call a Combined Perambulator and Gig; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a front elevation of my said invention, and Fig. 2 a plan thereof.

The dotted lines in these figures represent different positions into which my invention is capable of being adjusted, according as it is employed as a perambulator or as a gig, as will be hereafter' described.

In both the ligures, similar letters indicate similar parts.

The nature of my invention consists of two particulars, viz: first, in attaching to a gig, a handle frame carrying a guide wheel, in such a manner that the gig can, by reversing this handle-frame, be converted, at pleasure, into a perambulator or invalids carriage; second, in. rendering the handle frame so adjustable that it can be readily regulated to suit the height of the attendant who propels the perambulator, or to suit the position most agreeable to the occupant, from that of an upright sitting position, to that of a recumbent one.

To enable others skilled in the art, to make and use this machine, I will proceed to describe its construct-ion and operation.

I make the body of a gig, A, of any of the usual shapes and sizes for such machines and mount it on two wheels, B, B, by means of two springs C, C, stretching backward from the foot board D. The wheels B, B, are placed far back in order to prevent the possibility of the vehicle being overset by turning backward over the wheels, through any motion of the'person in it; instead of being placed as in the ordinary mode of constructing these gigs in consequence of which the latter are liable to be easily tipped over backward. To prevent oversetting toward the front, or laterally, I make use of two legs or steps, E, one at each front corner of the body. The handle frame F, or shafts by which the gig is drawn or the perambulator is propelled, consists of an elastic frame of wood or metal, pivoted at both 31,110; dated January 15, 1861.

sides of the body A, upon a spindle G, so that it may be at one time in the position shown in lthe drawings by the full lines, and at another time be reversed as represented by t-he dotted lines in the figures, so as to have the handle which had been in front when the vehicle was used as a gig, be behind when it is to be used as a perambulator.

Y On the axle I-I, passing through the shafts of .the handle frame, there is a wheel I, which is used as the front wheel of the perambulator, or, when the vehicle is used as a gig, serves to give eXtra security against the machine being overset.

The handle frame E is made to be clamped at any angle with the line of the bottom of the gig. This I accomplish by turning a collar g, on the inner side of the spindle G, and roughenino' the face of this collar with ratcheted racial corrugations', and putting similar corrugations on the sides of the handle frame where they touch the collar g, the corrugations of the one being reverse to those of the other, so that they may'hold together the more securely when clamped by the clamping screw T. By this means, the handle frame can be clamped when the vehicle is used as a perambulator, at any angle which will give the easiest reclining or sitting position to the child, invalid or other occupant, or, when desirable, can be adjusted to and firmly. secured at such point as will suit the height vof the `attendant.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. The general form and arrangement of the handle frame, with its wheel, substantially as described, whereby the same vehicle can be converted into a gig or a perambulator, at pleasure.

2. The special mode of clamping the handle frame in whatever position it is set as herein described.

3. The method herein described of increasing, the 'adhesion between the sides of the handle frame and the face of the collar on the spindle.

JESSE A. CRANDALL.

W'itnesses S. D. CozzENs, GEORGE W. BANTA, Jr. 

